The world today is governed by one vast religion. Crosstianity-a casualty of Christianity. It is Christianity, the gospel of love and humanism and a sense of equality and gender justice preached in vain by the proletarian-Joseph of Nazareth.In practice it is not Christianity of Jesus of Love Infinite but Crosstianity of Barbarity, the proven robber judicially set free. This theology is being practised in the name of Jesus Christ who went to the extreme extent beyond Judaism and swore as a fundamental of his faith, not only love thy neighbour but love thy enemies.Today, the world lives on cold war and hot war on hatred and exploitation. Most religions survive on fanaticism and God hates God, competes with God for larger flock and there is a rivalry to establish supremacy and Hostility. They forsake unity in actual life. To prove its imperial thesis is its bleeding battle to gain the throne.Was not the kingdom of god that Jesus held up but the forerunner to socialism, social justice, secularism and democracy? He was a raging egalitarian, an invisible socialist, and an economic democrat.Jesus, born of humble parents in Bethlehem, rose as a glorious phenomenon. He became a world wonder of spiritual-temporal revolution against an imperial establishment and a corrupt priestly order. Judas Iscariot betrayed his master for a few pieces of silver. Every barbarity from those treacherous days still exists, indeed in magnified malignancy, to victimise the have-not humanity and slay the radical humanist and activist.For all of humankind, Jesus’ magnificent, yet militant, teaching was a lofty testament of egalitarian liberation from obscurantist faith, authoritarian politics, theological orthodoxy and big business free-booting.He symbolised a revolutionary change in the theological-temporal establishment and advocated social justice and divinity, dignity and equity in the social order. H.G Wells wrote: “This doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. It is small wonder if, the world of that time [and of our time, if this writer may add] failed to grasp its full significance, and recoiled in dismay from even a half apprehension of its tremendous challenges to the established habits and institutions of mankind.”Jesus, the glorious rebel, proclaimed the reality of a universal moral order. He resisted the commercialisation of god and the commoditisation of man. Big temples, great churches, god-men, bishops, mullahs and acharyas are a mundane part of the capitalist establishment and are anti-Jesus in spirit.Jesus was a raging egalitarian, an invisible socialist, an economic democrat.In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus cast scorn upon that natural tendency we all obey, to glorify our own people and to minimise the righteousness of other creeds and races. There is no distinction in his treatment, because there is no measure to his bounty. There are no privileges, no rebates, and no excuses.H G Wells has presented these propositions in The Outline of History.Jesus spoke for all time and all mankind when he, bed-rocked on the spiritual philosophy of the kingdom of god, told that court this truth of human rights and social justice. His advocacy of the humanist culture as the ultimate value, as against obscurantist godism, is evident from the admonition that sabbath is for man, not man for sabbath.Today’s school culture brags about human rights but executes in truth royal judicial justice. Its infallible finality claims slaughter as victory of its cult. This cult crucifies the innocent accused like Jesus and sets free freebooters and robbers like Barabbas proved guilty but have power and wealth. Socialism is a dead doctrine, a dope for the poor so that they may not write in a do-or-die struggle against the existing armed unjust disorder in power.
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